In the ’70s, Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken starred in the seminal Vietnam War film The Deer Hunter. It ranks among the more harrowing entries in an already brutal genre, unflinchingly depicting the conditions of abject inhumanity in the war zone and then bringing the trauma home to sp…

If you’ve seen a Batman movie, you can tell that rubber suit is heavy. It’s obvious by the way the actors lumber around in that thing. But did you know that George Clooney’s Bat-suit in Batman & Robin weighed 90 pounds? The cape alone tipped the scales at 40 pounds. The thin…

Uma Thurman‘s one-scene appearance in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac may be the most memorable moment in a film already chockablock with delights. (Fizzled-out threeways! Pitiless spanking! Getting peed on by Shia LaBeouf!) In the chapter simply titled “Mrs. H,” she arrive…